Lihn Do Global Youth Summit in UK

Outstanding young Victorian to participate in Global Youth Summit in UK

Linh Doh, a 19 year old Maribyrnong resident has been selected from over 1000 applications worldwide to participate in the British Council?s Global Youth Summit from 15 - 21 November in London, UK.

Lihn Do, who is a Bachelor of Arts student at the University of Melbourne, also heads up Change&Switch, a youth-led, not-for-profit organisation addressing environmental and social justice issues. She will spend five days in the UK on an intensive leadership development programme, as part of the British Council?s Global Changemakers network.

Lihn will attend workshops, meet campaigning experts and visit British organisations. A select group of participants attending will also meet with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Participants will also be selected for the World Economic Forum in Davos and will attend a number of high level panels, engage with the world?s most influential business and political leaders and lend a grass-roots perspective to the Forum?s proceedings.

Global Changemakers is a global network where a select group of young people (16-25) share ideas and best practices and work individually and together on projects that directly impact the lives of those in their local communities. In addition, each year, a select group of Global Changemakers is chosen to participate in high-level political and economic events, to act as advocates and to raise decision-makers? awareness of key issues on the global agenda.

Founded for the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2007, Global Changemakers have partnered with, and participated in, World Economic Forum events (in Davos, Sharm-el-Sheikh, and Cape Town), as well as the Clinton Global Initiative, the Global Humanitarian Forum and the G20. Individual supporters include HM Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan, President Bill Clinton, and the actress Emma Thompson. The Rt Honourable Gordon Brown serves as Patron of Global Changemakers. For more information please see: www.global-changemakers.net.

The British Council is the UK?s international body for cultural relations. We build engagement and trust for the UK through the exchange of knowledge and ideas between people worldwide. We are registered in the UK as a charity. For more information, please visit: www.britishcouncil.org or www.global-changemakers.net.

ABOUT LIHN DO

Age: 19
City of Origin: Melbourne
Area of Activism: Climate change, youth development and engagement

In 2006 (at only the age of 16!), Linh established her first campaign Change a Million Light Bulbs, aimed at changing regular incandescent light bulbs to fluorescent light bulbs on a grassroots level across the world. She did this whilst juggling her high-school commitments, completing her secondary education as the overall VCAA VCE Achiever and was also crowned Maribyrnong Young Citizen of the Year.

She currently acts as the director of Change&Switch, a youth-led, not-for-profit organisation that she established in 2006. Change&Switch addresses environmental and social justice issues, and encourages Australian youth to have a voice in the formation of public policy. Linh also works as an advisor to the United Nations Environment Program and works with The Climate Project, a non-profit organisation with over 2500 volunteers trained by Al Gore to educate the public about climate change. All of this whilst managing her commitments as a Bachelor of Arts student at the University of Melbourne.

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